Watford are considered favourites to beat away specialists Crystal Palace at Vicarage Road in the televised clash on Sunday.
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“Therefore, my job is to get him to understand the level of the Premier League and how to perform consistently”.
“We are not getting carried away by other people’s ambitions but we think we can get a European spot if we have a good first half of the season but we haven’t covered that yet”.
Summer signing Wickham has been absent for over a month and Pardew confirmed the striker would not feature in his starting eleven at Vicarage Road.
Here is all the information you need for Watford’s game with Crystal Palace.
Pardew used Joe Ledley (hamstring) in the League Cup win after he returned to fitness but Scott Dann and Damien Delaney both remain ‘fitness doubts’. “When the team’s doing well and winning games, the crowd are happy and they’re behind you”.
Watford is now tenth in the Premier League with 9 points having won 2 games, drawn 3 and lost 1.
Key Player: Troy Deeney – The Watford striker may not have scored this season yet, but he has three assists and caused the Newcastle defence plenty of problems last weekend.
“Sometimes I think these big clubs take players too early and they’re literally taking talent without really consideration to how it’s going to work in the team”, Pardew said, as quoted by the Mirror.
Flores will be without the suspended Valon Behrami and injured Joel Ekstrand for the Sky Live Super Sunday match but he says summer signings Adlene Guedioura, Steven Berghuis and Nathan Ake are “able to start if I choose”.
“Julian Speroni has missed pre-season and I’m a little bit concerned that he hasn’t had much game time, we’ll look at some internal games for him”.
“They’re very fortunate, Watford [to have such an effective strike force]”.
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They do have options then but it will be surprising if Pardew makes significant changes to a system that has seen his side pick up wins at Chelsea and Norwich this season while they were a shade unfortunate not to take something from their 1-0 defeat at Spurs.
